There are those for whom the appearance of new kid atMcKinley, Rory Flanagan, played byone of apparently legion winners of TheGlee Project,Damian McGinty,was the whole point of tonight’s episode.

There were those for whom it was about an inexplicably badly-dressedand even-more-badly chapeau’d Blaine dancingto another Katy Perry song.

But I write this recap for those of us for whom this was theepisode in which Brittany and Santana acknowledged they were dating.Also: taking baths together. And for whom Blaine’ssartorial mistakes paled when compared to the fact that he lay down on thefloor and put his arm around Brittanywhile Santana glared at him. And who really would have been perfectly happy ifSantana had whipped those razor blades out of her hair instead of justthreatening wee Rory with torture and suffering if he didn’t back off her gf.

Now that you know where I’m coming from, let’s recap, shallwe?

Brittanyhas an Irish exchange student living at her house, Rory. She believes severalthings about Rory, including that he’s a leprechaun and that he can make herwishes come true and that the language he speaks is not English.

Rory believes he can get into Brittany’s “pot o’ gold” byperpetuating her belief that he’s magical and granting her three wishes. Firstwish: She wants a box of Lucky Charms cereal that’s all marshmallows.

In the next scene, Puckand Quinn at their most wholesomemarch into Miss Cochran‘s choir roomand give her a tube of under-eye concealer for the bags caused by her latenights taking care of Beth. In otherwords, hint, hint, Shelby,even though Puck thinks you’re still the “most tappable” teacher atMcKinley, if you want to get some rest or just a night away from the crying,the two of them are volunteering to babysit.

Quinn offers up their magical night babysitting for Will‘s ex-sister-in-law’s demon spawnas a reference, and Shelbytakes the bait. (We know there’s an ulterior motive because Quinn and Puck hadone back on their first babysitting job, too. In other words, little bit offoreshadowing. Gleeis gettingtricky.)

Next up is Sue,running for Congress, doing her on-air commentary on the nightly news, ignoringevery form of equal time law in existence while she rants against excessiveregulation leading to waste like throwing away 300 pounds of expired turkey gravyjust because the government thought it had too many weevils in it.

“Know what has no expiration date, voters?” shesnarls. “My rage.”

She’s also furious that McKinley, a public school, is goingto spend $2,004 putting on West Side Story,a “musical about a race war that glorifies gang violence yet still seemsextraordinarily gay.” After all, she says, $2,004 could pay a whole year’ssalary for a math teacher.

“If this nation wants to impress its future Chineseoverlords, we need to get our priorities straight,” she says, and asksparents to call the high school and protest.

Cut to the phones at McKinley ringing off the hook. Sue hasinspired a Tea Party-esque reaction in at least one parent, who heaves a brickat Principal Figgins whilescreaming, “My son can’t read, and you want him to sing and dance?”

So Figgins decides to cancel the musical to save its $2004budget, despite Will pointing out that Sue’s pom pom budget alone is $4000 amonth. As usual when it comes to standing up to Sue, Figgins doesn’t.

Santana is at her locker, which has a little drawing of Lord Tubbington on the door that says, “LordTubbington thinks you’re purrfect and so do I.” Since Santana and LordTubbington are my two favorite characters on Glee, this may be my most favoritest moment ever until later whenSantana… well, that would be getting ahead of myself.